White nights
In Russia, a natural phenomenon occurs during the summer solstice in areas of high latitude (as in the case of St. Petersburg), in which sunsets are late and early sunrise. As a result of this, the darkness is never complete. This natural phenomenon is popularly known as White Nights, to which Dostoyevski refers in El Idiot, when Ippolit visits him on his dacha. Both stories (the narrator's and Nástenka's) occur hard
